Original title: Zheng Qinwen advances to the Adelaide race
Beijing Daily News (Reporter Li Yuanfei, Intern Qi Luyang) Beijing time yesterday, the second week of WTA500 Adelaide station started the final qualifying round. Zheng Qinwen, a 20-year-old Chinese tennis player who was promoted the day before, took 3 hours and 36 minutes to upset 21-year-old Russian Potapova 2-1 and advance to the main match.
Zheng Qinwen is currently ranked 28 in world singles and Potapova is currently ranked 43 in world singles. The two’s only previous confrontation was in the second round of last year’s US Open. go to 6(3).
In yesterday’s match, Zheng Qinwen took the lead in the third game of the first set and scored 4 points to break serve after 0-15. In the next game, Potapova scored 3 points at the end of the game and answered Zheng Qinwen. Over the next 4 rounds, the two sides put on a breaking show of each other and did not stabilize their positions until the end of the game. After the rounds were divided into 5 to 5 and 6 to 6, the game is entered into a tiebreaker . Potapova won the tiebreak 7-3 and took the first set.
In the second set, the drama of “your team breaks the serve and I break the serve” was still staged. The game points remained even until the twelfth game, but Zheng Qinwen quickly established in this service game that Potapova had to keep. with a lead of 40 to 15, they eventually won 7 to 5 and tied the set at 1.
In the deciding set, both sides played more cautiously in their own service games and the match again entered a tiebreaker. This time Zheng Qinwen entered the state very quickly and finally won 7 games 7-4 and won the whole game.
